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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1976 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1930s (112) 1936 (15) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Midwestern states (70) Michigan (7) Ann Arbor (3) 18. Living Winners 18. Living Winners Alive (292) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) S (39) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) T (34) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) S (10) Samuel (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 41 (9) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Asia, northeast (38) China (11) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Northeastern states (122) Massachusetts (62) Cambridge (20) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (20) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Midwestern states (201) Michigan (25) Ann Arbor (25) University of Michigan (25) Alumni (8) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93) Long-term academic staff (33) New York (216) New York City (168) Columbia University (96) Long-term academic staff (33) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academia Sinica (6) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Physical Society (113) C (21) Chinese Academy of Sciences (21) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) H (88) Hungarian Academy of Sciences (61) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) R-T (460) R (448) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards E-F (439) E (135) Eringen Medal (3) Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1) F (394) Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences (5) complete name: Samuel Chao Chung Ting nobel prize: physics award year: 1976 together with: Burton Richter prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 was awarded jointly to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Samuel family name: Ting occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, United States of America description: Samuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the principal investigator for the international $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment which was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011. pronunciation: (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting Chao-chung) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1976/summary/> date birth: 1936 usual name: Samuel Ting